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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,029 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 52
LUKE WILLIAMS pleaded guilty to the charge of making use of obscene language on the Newcastle-road on the 13th inst., and was fined 10s with 5s…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →James Butler, licensee of the Albion Hotel, Wickham, and Jane Canning, licensee of the Terminus Hotel, pleaded guilty to keeping their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THOMAS SALE and Robert Percy Butchart were charged on warrant with deserting from the barque Dovenby, and at the request of the master were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Estate of Wm. Hugh Shapre. IN this estate the liabilities were set down at £228 15s 1d. Mr. Harris appeared for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN the Full Court to-day, the case of Reynolds and others v. the North Queensland Insurance Company was continued. This was a motion by the defendants for a new…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. G. F. Scott, P M., occupied the bench at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday. Michael Scanlon was fined 20s, with 4s 10d costs, in default seven days gaol, for having…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. G. F. Scott, District Registrar, conducted an examination in the estate of Patrick Slattery, at the Courthouse, East Maitland, yesterday forenoon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the Bankruptcy Court to-day the Registrar committed a witness named George Gogerty to gaol for seven days for prevarication. He was giving evidence concerning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FOWLER FERGUSON, a seaman, was charged with being absent without leave from the B.B. ship Earl of Dunraven on the 20th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HENRY COSLETT, a hard-featured individual with a record, was proceeded against for stealing a soldering iron and an iron screw-driver, valued at 5s…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR. G. F. SCOTT, P.M., and Messrs. H. Crothers, and J. D. Prentice, Js.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Saturday evening the residence of Mr. John Moss, of Francis-street, was entered, evidently for the purpose of robbery, but fortunately the parties…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GEORGE RIDLEY, a boy, was charged with stealing one melon from the railway goods-shed on the 13th inst. He pleaded guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MATTHEW ERICKSON, a Swedish seaman, was charged with being drunk in a public place. The accused, who was run over by a cart on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the Central Criminal Court to-day before Judge Stephen an elderly man named William Smith was charged with having at North Sydney on November 6, feloniously…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Senior-sergeant Forrest, who has been transferred to Muswellbrook, left by the midday train yesterday for the scone of his now duties. Senior-sergeant Cowan, who…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →John Hall, the licenses of the Royal Standard Hotel at Adamstown, was proceeded against by summons by Constable Vincent for using…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DORA SPEARS proceeded against Eliza Spears, charging her with having used insulting words on the 15th instant at a picnic in Rouse's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JOHN JOSEPH O'RILEY, a blacksmith, pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk and disorderly in a railway carriage. The accused said that he…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JOHN JOSEPH O'REILLY, a blacksmith, was fined 10s, in default 48 hours' imprisonment, for being drunk in Watt-street. John Hoy, a labourer, was…
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